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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.258
People
Rico Lebrun, American (Naples, Italy 1900 - 1964 Malibu, CA)
Title
Reclining Ox
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1932
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/264856

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk over a blue ink grid on cream wove paper
Dimensions
29.1 x 42.7 cm (11 7/16 x 16 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Lebrun / Orvieto 1[9]32--
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: LACMA / Loan / # / 54
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: Property of / Agnes Mongan

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rico LeBrun, sold; to Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1933; gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.258
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A grid has been drawn in blue ink onto both sides of the sheet. Pinholes at all corners. Dog-ear crease at l.l. Traces of red chalk on verso from contact with another drawing.

Publication History

  • Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 1947), no. 140 p. xv, repr. as pl. 140
  • Beauty in the Beast, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1967), no. 16, and repr. on cover
  • Rico Lebrun, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1967), no. 54, p. 43 (checklist)
  • Mary Sayre Haverstock, An American Bestiary, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), repr. p. 186

Exhibition History

  • Rico Lebrun, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/05/1967 - 01/14/1968; Museo Nacional de San Carlos, INBA, Mexico City, 02/15/1968 - 03/15/1968; University of Arizona, Tucson, 04/15/1968 - 05/16/1968; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, 06/17/1968 - 07/29/1968; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 08/29/1968 - 10/06/1968; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, 02/15/1969 - 03/15/1969; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 11/02/1969 - 12/15/1969

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